TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNeal,W.W.
TI  - Plum Creek: a novel 
SN  - 9780875656472
AV  - PS3613.C585943P58 
U1  - 813.6 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Fort Worth, Texas
PB  - TCU Press
KW  - Country life
KW  - Texas
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - FICTION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romans
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Chapter Thirty-FiveChapter Thirty-Six; Chapter Thirty-Seven; Chapter Thirty-Eight; Chapter Thirty-Nine; About the Author
N2  - Plum Creek is a historical novel set in nineteenth-century Texas. It is a coming-of-age story involving Billy McCulloch, a fifteen-year-old boy who accompanies a former Texas Ranger, a black man, and two of his uncles on a quest to rescue a fourteen-year-old girl. The girl was captured by a band of renegades led by a half-breed Comanche killer after they slaughtered the rest of her family in a raid on their home in rural Central Texas. The pursuit of the renegades is set against a backdrop of post-Civil War Texas, just beginning to recover from the devastation of war and Reconstruction. The character of the former Texas Ranger is loosely based on John Coffee Hays, known as Jack Hays, who was called "Devil Yack" by many Mexican and Native American people because of the fame he won fighting in the Mexican War and, before and after, fighting the Comanches. As Billy and the older men ride, Texas is emerging into a new age around them. A new social structure is taking hold, the old ways of life are dying, and the future is uncertain
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